In 1997 and 1998, a race was held recreating
the goldrusher's stampede up the grueling Chilkoot Trail, across treacherous
Lake Bennett and down the Yukon River to Dawson City. Parks
Canada and the US Parks Service decided that the racers were impacting too
heavily on the trail to allow the race to continue.

1999 brought the first annual Yukon River
Quest. Starting in Whitehorse, the race to Dawson City takes racers
across 460 miles of intense paddling.

Star Photo by Vince Fedoroff
RIVER QUESTERS OFF-Larry Seethaler and Greg Tibbits from Anchorage (in canoe
four) and Mark Bayard from Langley B.C. and John Roberts of Calgary Alberta
set out on the first Yukon River Quest from Rotary Peace Park at noon
Wednesday. First off the beach was Michael Onesi and Jason Murphy of
Whitehorse. (1999 race)